Hello Again! Welcome to another segment of my Shop Hop
adventure, in case you missed out last time, so far I’ve already covered 3 of
the nine shops, Yarn Garden, Strings and Strands, and Needle Nook.
By this time it’s like 2PM and we haven’t eaten since
breakfast. We’re also ready for a rest stop so we make a quick detour to
Starbucks for a quick fix, Really quick though because we are on a time
crunch. Several of the yarn stores on our list close before 6 PM and they are
all about 20-30 minutes apart. Time to motor!
one of the smaller shops on the hop, Sheepish had a few
really good things going for them. First off, an amazing window dressing! They were also one of the only stores
to support spinning and Amanda scored some really nice Targhee roving
there. They also had stray kittens
for adoption, aren’t they cute?
I really wanted one, but I know my husband would have killed
me if I brought home a cat with my fiber!
Besides, Yarn Crawls are hard work and we couldn’t afford the dead
weight. Speed was Key.
Next shop had the distinguished privilege of having a male
sales clerk! What a sweet guy too,
he patiently answered my questions (it’s harder to find solid colored sport
weight yarn in a store than you’d think!), and good-naturedly informed us that
while he doesn’t knit or spin and is color blind, he writes the articles for
the stores’ blog. He also had an amazing amount of knowledge about all of the
yarn in the store, and the knitted designs on display. Oh, and did I mentioned the
cricket loom casually displayed on a table? Oh yeah, we want one. So. Bad.
I must admit, I feel a little bad about cast on cottage. It
was HUGE. They had everything you could possibly want. Yarn was organized by
brand – so you could easily find the brand and weight of yarn that you wanted.
AND they had an AMAZING color selection. One of the things that we noticed on
the Hop was that while most stores carried the brands we wanted, they usually
only offered one weight/type of yarn of the brand, in a limited color palette.
Not Cast-On-Cottage! They had
everything and MORE! I’m sure we
could easily have spent hours looking, not to mention our whole yarn budget,
but by that time we were so sure we wouldn’t be able to get to all nine stores
before they closed, that we had given ourselves a mere ten minutes to pick
something and pay. I did mention a
desire to find the trendy cubic needles, and how I was surprised none of the
shops so far had them. The lady in the store promptly turned around and pulled
out a small box of cubic needles from a cabinet O.0;; I had already made my purchase by then and wasn’t going
to make another, but I was a little…. Surprised? Why were they kept hidden back there? How many of the other yarn stores also
secretly carried them?? The Clock
was Ticking though, so we left in a hurry. Stay Tuned to find out what happened next!
aawwww. kittens.
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